BRADLEY WIGGINS' success - and one-liners - in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year finally provided the UK with a winner who justified the title.

The first Briton to win the Tour de France, Olympic gold winner and favourite for the prize - Bradley Wiggins

SHOCKEROONI! Six days after the event, I still can’t believe that a sportsman with a personality has finally won the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year.

You couldn’t pay me money to watch the tedious Tour de France but I salute Bradley Wiggins for his excellent performance last Sunday night.

Let’s face it, one of Wiggy’s old sideburns had more of a personality than some of the previous winners.

The cyclist stole the show right from the start by saying that all top athletes have a great team behind them. Before adding: “Including Gary Lineker – do you realise how many people are responsible for his make-up?”

Quite frankly, he deserved the award for that one remark.

Lineker himself was in fine form, talking to Man City star Sergio Aguero in Spanish. This is great, I thought, now we can hate the jug-eared Match of the Day presenter in TWO languages.

To be fair to Lineker, he teed up what might have been the line of the night for Fabrice Muamba, the former Bolton player who famously “died” on the pitch.

“How are you?” asked Gary.

“Physically I’m much better than I was,” smiled Muamba.

If there was an award for Understatement of the Year, I reckon the big man would have walked away with it.

Lineker was joined on stage by Clare Balding (making a rare TV appearance) and Sue Barker (who appeared to have forgotten that Movember was last month).

But I thought the female who stole the show was Martina Navratilova – sorry but when did she become a stunning blonde?

As one of my mates texted after the show: “Did you see big Martina? She looked like a wummin!”

Team of the Year, not surprisingly, was Team GB for the Olympics and Paralympics, although I’d have awarded it to Motherwell for the Champions League and Europa League.

The show in general this year was a salute to British sport but they cheekily narrowed it down to just England when it came to the football.

While the climax of the 2011-12 English Premiership season was given huge licks – including filmed interviews with the fans, a couple of Man City players on stage and even some carefully choreographed stuff from the 16,000-strong studio audience – Scottish football was basically blanked.

All we got was a wee clip of Hearts lifting the Scottish Cup, a swift mention of Celtic winning the SPL and a brief word about Rangers being “demoted to Division Three”.

Yep, it was so bad they couldn’t even bother getting the facts right.

A poor show from the BBC bosses in London and I hope one of the high heid yins in Glasgow has already sent a stern email to point out the errors of their ways.

Still, I suppose it gave the Celtic and Rangers supporters a wee taste of what us diddy fans have to suffer from the media in Scotland.

Anyone who complains about the seemingly disproportionate coverage given to the Old Firm in newspapers, TV or radio will be given the same answer: It’s all about supply and demand.

And that’s probably best summed up this season with Rangers in the Third Division. The Ibrox club still enjoy more newspaper, TV and radio coverage for the simple reason their supporters provide more readers, viewers and listeners than, say, Hearts, Hibs or Motherwell. Fair enough, I suppose.

Well, that’s exactly what happened on Sunday night at the Sports Personality of the Year.

Compared to all the big stuff happening in the football world throughout 2012, I’m afraid Celtic and Rangers – in the eyes of TV producers aiming a show first and foremost at 52 million people in England – were strictly sporting minnows.

Still, credit where it’s due. At least the producers put a smile on all our faces towards the end of the show by inviting David Beckham to read something off the autocue. Not a great idea on live telly.

He sounded like a cross between Norman Collier and Stanley Unwin.

To be fair, the bit Becks was asked to do lasted a minute and a half.

And that’s probably the most amount of reading he’s ever done in his life.